Asia’s best amateur golfers set their sights on Hong Kong’s Clearwater Bay for region’s showpiece

The region’s best amateur golfers will descend on Hong Kong in October when the Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club hosts the seventh edition of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.

Under the slogan of “Creating Heroes”, the showpiece championship will feature 120 players from the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation’s 39 member associations.

The stakes are high with the champion receiving a place at the Masters Tournament at Augusta and, along with the runner-up, a berth in The Open qualifying series for The Open Championship.

Chinese schoolboy Guan Tianlang won the event in Thailand in 2012 and then rocked the golfing world by making the cut at the 77th Masters, despite being harshly penalised one shot for slow play. The 14-year-old from Guangzhou was the youngest player in Masters history.

Launched in 2009 to encourage and promote the development of golf in the Asia-Pacific region, Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship has been held in China (2009, 2013), Japan (2010), Singapore (2011), Thailand (2012) and Australia (2014).

Created by three of the most respected organisations in the world of golf – the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC), the Masters Tournament and The R&A – the championship will be held at Clearwater Bay from October 1-4.

“Hong Kong has an impressive track record of staging world-class international sporting events and we have no doubt this year’s event at Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club will be another example of that,” said Dominic Wall, director of Asia Pacific at The R&A.